Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . HER MOTHERS RIGHT HAND A Czech girl is in partnership withher mother left, the work was given up. In NewYork, two hundred Czechs were in oneof our Sunday schools, and then thechurch proceeded to close, and was sold,because forsooth, the Americans hadmoved uptown! Thus the opportunitywas lost for supplying religious instruc-tion among two hundred thousandpeople. The choir in the picture is thatof our church at Westfield, Massachu-setts. Every boy is a Czech excep
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . HER MOTHERS RIGHT HAND A Czech girl is in partnership withher mother left, the work was given up. In NewYork, two hundred Czechs were in oneof our Sunday schools, and then thechurch proceeded to close, and was sold,because forsooth, the Americans hadmoved uptown! Thus the opportunitywas lost for supplying religious instruc-tion among two hundred thousandpeople. The choir in the picture is thatof our church at Westfield, Massachu-setts. Every boy is a Czech except twoSlovaks. They are faithful and reverentcommunicants. And how they can sing!—fine full voices. Musicians all knowthat the Bohemians are a race of greatmusicians. In this church fifty childrenhave been confirmed, and the rector ispractically the pastor of the whole colonyof 500 Czechs in this New England fac-tory town. What an opportunity is here! Maythe Master grant that the Church be ledto minister to these lovable people, andbring them to His Holy Slovaks and Uniats The Slovaks are a lower type andgenerally faithful Roman Catholics. Theforeign-looking group in the picture isa National Slovak Society in a RomanCatholic parish. The Slovaks are in thehomeland the brethren of the Czechs,living in hard conditions, poor farmerson the slopes of the Carpathians, com-prising the less intellectual part of thenew Czecho-Slovakia. To these peoplewe should of course minister, if un-churched. Some Slovaks, and manyUkrainians or Ruthenians, are calledGreek Catholics or Uniats,—that is tosay, though under the Roman Catholicsway, they have been allowed to keeptheir Slavic liturgies and married priest-hood; they have many large congrega-tions in America. Without interferingwith the religion of these, we can cer-tainly be Christian neighbors to them. Scum o the Earth*I At ithe gate of the West I stand,On the isle where the nations call them scum o the earth; Stay, a
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